New Bible Reading Plan

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My church started a new bible reading plan for the year and I'd like to add it to Logos 7. It's not one that is already in Logos and the only way I can find to enter it is to do it line by line. I've created some basic templates in Excel and Word with the list and even created a personal book but I can't seem to find a way to import the thing into a reading plan that works. The plan is called Blended or Blue Letter Bible Daily Bible Reading Program - Blended Plan. Any help would be appreciated.

This is a complex reading plan - it might require manual input, but at least the first readings per day should be able to import via a passage list. Using Excel is the exact right thing (I don't see a PB helping though). Coming from an idea of another user in the German forum, I could try and give it a hand later today.

I built the plan in Verbum 7 and shared it with Faithlife group Professor Grant Horner's Bible Reading Plan which seems to host a number of reading plans. You'll need to join the group, then go to tab Logos Documents and you'll find it (or click here).

What I did:

I pasted your plan into Excel and made two columns ("eins" & "zwei") with the different daily readings as bible references. 1373.Blended RP prep.xlsx Then I selected the respective column entries and built a Passage List from each of those two columns (with the Add from Clipboard command - yields a 365-entries list each) and then a Reading Plan for each of those with the Add from Passage List command.

Then I built the "Blended" plan with the Add from Another Reading Plan command. The cool thing is that this feature takes out full duplicates - thus I had Excel put in a repeat entry of the first column into the second on those days where there was no second reading.

Hope this helps you in either building this yourself or obtaining it by joining the group.

When adding a passage list to a reading plan, all list items are added to separate sessions/day.

Is it possible to add a passage list to a single session? If not, how do we request this feature?

Thanks.

It is possible to have Reading Plans with multiple readings per session (see this thread above, or examples under https://wiki.logos.com/Reading_Plans), but I don't understand the idea behind having a passage list in a single session - what is it that you want to accomplish?

I am looking for an easy way to add multiple passages to a single session/day as I am making a reading plan based on the Chronological Life Application Study Bible (CLASB) (NLT Translation by Tyndale Publishers). This Bible has all the parallel passages, alternating after each other.

Here's an example:

Mk 1:1

Lk 1:1-4

Jn 1:1-18

Lk 1:5-80

Mt 1:18-25

Mt 1:1-17

Lk 3:23-38

Currently, it's quite painstaking to add one passage after one into a single session.

I am looking for an easy way to add multiple passages to a single session/day as I am making a reading plan based on the Chronological Life Application Study Bible (CLASB) (NLT Translation by Tyndale Publishers). This Bible has all the parallel passages, alternating after each other

Your example is one day? Do I understand this that your reading plan has seven readings on Jan 1, seven on Jan 2 etc.?

If so, I would build this as the plan above, i.e. I would try to make an XLS with a row for a day and seven columns with bible references. The point is that to create the reading plan, you make columns (the whole year) into passage lists, not rows (one day).